Press & Data Kit
Average Rent publishes the raw distribution of live apartment asking prices across the US, refreshed every morning. The figures below are free to cite with attribution. Need a custom cut by city, bedroom, or time range? Get in touch.
The numbers, as of November 2026
Updated every morning. Pulled live from the same dataset that powers the National Rent Report.
New buildings by month
Apartment buildings added to the site each month, by the month their page went live.
Buildings tracked
12,892
Nov 2026 is the month to date.
| Month | Buildings added |
|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 121 |
| Apr 2026 | 1501 |
| May 2026 | 3232 |
| Jun 2026 | 2705 |
| Jul 2026 | 1815 |
| Aug 2026 | 278 |
| Sep 2026 | 886 |
| Oct 2026 | 2211 |
| Nov 2026 | 143 |
Newest cities with 5+ buildings
- Bedford, TX 9 buildings, since Oct 22
- Spring Valley, CA 6 buildings, since Oct 17
- El Cerrito, CA 6 buildings, since Oct 14
- Watertown, MA 5 buildings, since Oct 13
- Coppell, TX 5 buildings, since Oct 7
- Stafford, TX 15 buildings, since Oct 4
Ready-to-quote facts
- The median US apartment asking rent is $1,718 per month as of November 2026.
- High Point, NC is the most expensive tracked market at $1,001,339 average asking rent.
- Davenport, IA is the cheapest tracked market at $792 average asking rent.
- A one-bedroom rents at a $1,570 median; a two-bedroom at $1,891.
- The dataset spans 180,739 live listings across 1205 cities, refreshed every morning.
- Price history is tracked for every building and unit in the dataset, covering about 0.77% of the 23.4 million US apartment homes in 5+ unit buildings.
How to cite us
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US median rent
A single city (Davenport, IA)
About the data
Every figure is the raw asking price from live apartment listings, refreshed every morning, with no statistical model or survey in between. Median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean sits above it because a luxury tail pulls the average up. Coverage skews toward metros with larger professionally-managed inventories. For methodology detail and comparison against Zillow ZORI and RentCafe, see the National Rent Report and the coverage page.
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